Hot soup, hot damn
There's a new opinion site in town this week. It's called Hotsoup and it was started by several political consultants as a way of getting well-known consultants like Donna Brazile or Ed Gillespie even more out in the open, huckstering their worn and comfortable opinions in the context of a debate.
Other than the excessive use of flash, the biggest problem that I have with this site is their mistaken belief that opinion leaders on the Internet will be the same boring talking heads that we've had to watch on television. Why is this wrong? Because these type of politicos and pundits are....boring. Yes. They are not entertaining, with the possible exception of James Carville, whose accent and bald head are a universally appealing combination.
The future opinion leaders of the new media are the pseuds, the pseudonymous trend-setters who develop their own constituencies by being entertaining. We see this on television with reality shows and on the net with people like Drudge and the founders of the Daily Koz and Wonkette. They're not right and they're not prescient. They're entertaining and that can make all the difference.
I highly encourage the hotsoup hierophants to encourage new opinion leaders and eschew the treadworn. Ask me how...I have opinions:)
Posted on October 19, 2006
